Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Cigarette Smoking Among UG Students

Abstract

Today's smoking culture includes a subpopulation of smokers called " social smokers " . Many college students define " social smokers " as those who use tobacco in more social activities, rather than using tobacco on a regular basis. Social smokers don't believe that they are addicted or worried about the social acceptability of their smoking habits. Objectives: To assess the knowledge and attitude of cigarette smoking use among students and to find out the association between knowledge and attitude and their association with demographic variables. Materials and methods: Non-experimental descriptive design was used to select 100 samples. Purposive sampling is used in which handpicking of subjects were done. Questionnaires and 3 point likert scale was used to assess the knowledge and attitude of the samples. Descriptive and Inferential Statistics was used to analyze the data. Results: There is no association between knowledge and attitude regarding cigarette smoking. Association between knowledge regarding cigarette smoking with age and mother's education of the participants was found. There is significant association between father's education and occupation and type of family with attitude of the students. Conclusion: There is a probability of having role models from the family regarding the habit of cigarette smoking. It seems that there is a need for the health care providers for developing programs for eradication of cigarette use among the students.